Something is very wrong here. It's been a week since Scout laid her egg. She will not lay a second one as long as this one stays in the box. Both peregrines are very confused. They do not seem to know what to do. They come in the box, stand over the egg for a long time, sit down, get up, start scraping in the bowl, walk out, come back, breed for a minute and leave the box.What is happening? Well as soon as there is an egg, in both the male and the female the prolactine levels start to rise. In order for the female to lay eggs she needs a lot of FSH and LH . These hormones make eggs to ovulate. Prolactine and FSH/LH do not go together.
The egglaying proces has been interrupted. Maybe due to the snow, cold, rain of the second half of March. That means the first clutch has failed. She will not start a second clutch as long as this egg in the scrape. And this egg will not hatch, it is not fertile anymore. It has been there for a week, it is most likely foul.
So it would be the best to take this egg out, so the peregrines can start their second clutch.
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